[weedle013ZiO]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Awwww yeahhhh!!!
Suit acted by Jiro freakin Okamoto if I may add aka Kamen Rider Black and RX, Ouja, Leangle, Kintaros to name a few. This I believe was his next Kobayashi-written sentai show since Timeranger where he was the suit actor for Time Fire.

Wait a minute?
He was the sixth Ranger in both Kobayashi Sentai series he was in. Lel

[Sheepweaver95]

You wouldn't know it looking at those characters side-by-side, but damn. Talk about having an awesome range.

[wentwood]

As soon as Magi gets released I may get it on eBay or Amazon.

[Annuga]

Caught up to episode 29, meaning I've seen Juuzo vs Takeru. I still don't get the hype entirely but I can conclude that Shinkenger is indeed as the kids say, pretty good.

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by weedle013ZiO

Wait a minute?
He was the sixth Ranger in both Kobayashi Sentai series he was in. Lel

Also Ginga Blue in Gingaman might I add. And ToQ6.

[GuardianAngel87]

Sadly, I never really could get into Shikenger's overall hype and while the show is pretty decent, I ultimately find it vastly overrated. Then again, some of the issues I might with the show might be partially due to setting my own expectations with Shinkenger being a bit too high and most especially, a very bad set of English subtitles I was unfortunately stuck when I was watching the series through Kissasian at the time. Takeru Shiba/Shinken Red coming across as a massive stick in the mud/uncharismatic bore more than not seriously does not help matters at all.


Anyway, I have watched several more episodes of Battle Fever J and I should be able to finish this series very soon considering I now have ten episodes left to the series and with it, I will officially be halfway through the Super Sentai seasons from the Showa era with Goranger, JAKQ, Sun Vulcan, Goggle V, Changeman and Flashman being the ones that are currently unaccounted for. Although, once I finished BFJ, I'm planning to continue where I left off on Kamen Rider Fourze and finishing that series and maybe start off on watching either Kamen Rider Blade or Flashman or maybe Jiban or even Shaider afterwards. I haven't quite figure that out yet.

[GuardianAngel87]

Managed to finish Battle Fever J just the other day and I think this series, like Bioman, might officially be among my honorable mentions despite of a couple of major flaws, like the first Miss America not doing much of anything after the first several episodes and its endgame arc is somewhat lackluster, regarding the Super Sentai seasons I have seen so far. I really need to update my series ranking list at some point.

[SHINOBI03]

This will probably sound like a very stupid question, but why does 90s Super Sentai and Kamen Rider look like they were filmed in the 70s compared to other 90s Tokusatsu production? Were they still using films when everyone else switched to video?

[Androzani84]

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Originally Posted by SHINOBI03

This will probably sound like a very stupid question, but why does 90s Super Sentai and Kamen Rider look like they were filmed in the 70s compared to other 90s Tokusatsu production? Were they still using films when everyone else switched to video?

Yes. Sentai only switched once digital cameras became mainstream

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by SHINOBI03

This will probably sound like a very stupid question, but why does 90s Super Sentai and Kamen Rider look like they were filmed in the 70s compared to other 90s Tokusatsu production? Were they still using films when everyone else switched to video?

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Yes. Sentai only switched once digital cameras became mainstream

Adding to this they switched to a different film camera it seems when they started working on Boukenger to match the new broadcasting format at the time, but it was Shinkenger where they finally ditched film and went video with the RED1 camera. Shinkenger was also the first sentai show I believe that made use of the on-location audio for scenes like people talking with each other outside. Of course the lines from the MOTW are still done from a studio booth obviously.
That said it is interesting how they stuck with film that long. I guess it was easy for Kamen Rider to switch to video starting with Kuuga since they had a long hiatus period since 1989 so people would be less thrown off with the sudden change in format.